Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.
Contrary to the defendant's contention, the Supreme Court did not err in disallowing his peremptory challenge to a white prospective juror. Although the defendant asserts that the prosecutor failed to make a prima facie showing that the defendant was exercising his peremptory challenges on the basis of race, this preliminary issue is academic because defense counsel offered race-neutral reasons for striking five out of six white...
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